Numbers 21:16

And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

From thence they went to Beer - i:e., a well. The name was probably given to it afterward, as it is not mentioned, Numbers 33:1-56.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 21:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beer is probably the “Well,” afterward known as Beer-elim, the “well of heroes” Isaiah 15:8 .
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

An Itinerary. This continues Numbers 21:4 (and they journeyed from Mount Hor), but the immediate place of departure in Numbers 21:10 is omitted...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they went. This Ellipsis is wrongly supplied. It should be "from thence toward Beer". No mention is made of Beer in the list of journeys in Numb...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. And from thence they went to Beer. Some think that a circumstance is here narrated, which had never been mentioned before, since a song...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And from thence they went to Beer— Or, as the context explains it, to the well which, by God's direction, they dug, and from whence they were suppl...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Brazen Serpent. Conquest of Bashan 1-3. The southern Canaanites repulse the Israelites, but are eventually destroyed.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE LAST MARCH AND THE FIRST CAMPAIGN Numbers 21:1-35 IT has been suggested in a previous chapter that the repulse of the Israelites by the Kin...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Brazen Serpent; Journeying to Pisgah Numbers 21:1-20 It often falls to our lot to compass the land of Edom! It is bad enough to have to fig...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The movement forward of the people now brought them into the path of conflict. The way was rough and difficult and the people were discouraged. Again...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If, as some suppose, the name of Beer, which means the ^four t-e! or well of life, was given in this place to intimate the well of life; we may learn...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And from thence they went to Beer ,.... A place so called from a well which sprung up here, of which the following account is given: that is, the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And from thence [they went] to Beer: that [is] the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ar A chief city in Moab. Beer This place, and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth, named here, ( Numbers 21:19 ,) are not mentioned among those places...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ATTACK AND DEFEAT OF CANAANITES (vs.1-3) The king of Arad, a Canaanite, heard that Israel was in the same vicinity from which they had sent the s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Removal of the Camp. B. C. 1452. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Beer, and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth named here, Numbers 21:19 , are not mentioned among those places where they pitched or encamped, Num...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

6). Journey from Oboth to the Pisgah Looking Towards Jeshimon ( Numbers 21:11-20 ). From this point on there is no shortage of water, as they mov...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Numbers 21:1 . King Arad the Canaanite . Rather, “the Canaanite King of Arad.” Arad was a royal city of the Canaani...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Numbers 21:1 . King Arad; that is, Arad king of Arad. The way of the spies, is understood to be the route of the twelve spies sent from Kadesh-B...
The Biblical Illustrator

Spring up, O well. A song of the pilgrimage I. The needs of human pilgrimage. 1. How indispensable are the things which we need. 2. How m...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE END OF JOURNEYS , THE BEGINNING OF VICTORIES ( Numbers 21:10 Numbers 22:1 ). Numbers 21:10 The children...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

From Oboth to Jeshimon
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And from thence they went to Beer; that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. The pe...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 17:6 ; Isaiah 12:3 ; Isaiah 41:17 ; Isaiah 41:18 ; Isaiah 43:20 ; Isaiah 49:10 ; John 4:10 ; John 4:14 ; John 7:37-39 ; Judges 9:21...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Beer — This place and Mattanah, Nahaliel, and Bamoth named here, Numbers 21:19 , are not mentioned among those places where they pitched or encamp...

¹⁶ And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

Related Commentaries of Numbers 21:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 21:16